Look at the pages of shitposts the main side effect of the damaged gear system causes. Quickly making a majority of your gear unusable after a succession of sieges which any coordinated attacker will try to do is insanely bad design wise, and the event of being "item bombed" needs to be coded out of the game one way or another before a Strat 6, if it even happens lol
Then make trading insanely easy and gold abundant so we can instead fight battles with pro gear on fun maps and bounce back from defeats with minimal participation in webpage sperging and make it actually fun and less committal so it doesn't instantly die again lol